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c186282 <
c186282@nnada.net> wrote in news:
7hicnRoYCeWreQv1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com:
On 8/8/25 11:23 AM, Lee wrote:
Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
|
| President Donald Trump keeps saying he'll solve the
| politically fraught problem of reconciling the need for
| undocumented farm labor with his mass deportation plan.
|
| But the White House does not appear close to a policy
| decision -- and farmers are getting frustrated with the
| delays.
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-teased-a-solution-for-
farmers-its-likely-not-coming-soon-00498932>
--bks
They voted for Trump knowing about his
mania to deport all the migrant workers,
tough to be sorry for them.
The farm equation is DIFFICULT.
US farms commonly operate at a BARE profit,
if not in debt. SOME of that is because of
foreign competition, but SOME is also due
to what US consumers are willing/able to bear.
Note that 'bear' also has a lot to do with
the MIDDLEMEN ...
To TRY to cope, US farms have taken to using
a lot of illegal/quasi-legal foreign labor -
which Trump is taking away for now.
Reliable foreign labor cannot be taken away
unless something, some mechanisms, COMPENSATE
or US farms will collapse and we'll be 100%
dependent on foreign food. NOT good.
I understand the Trump/MAGA perspective here
and generally approve but, as usual, the Devil
is in the details. "Ideology" - left right or
whatever - tends to overlook such details.
Details are a PAIN IN THE ASS.
Oh WAIT ... you didn't WANT a sane discussion ...
it's all just 'OrangePhobia' with you ........
When Trump policies were ruining farmers 5 years
ago he at least TRIED to care, via the billions he
threw at them in bailouts.
Now that he doesn't need them anymore he can
just cast them aside, like he does with everyone
no longer useful to him.
Trump's massive farmer bailout failed to
make up for the 'self-inflicted' trade damage
January 18, 2021
The U.S.-China trade war caused deep damage
to many American farmers and their livelihoods.
And while President Trump directed the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to distribute
billions of dollars in aid to farmers across
the country, mostly through the Market
Facilitation Program (MFP), that historic
bailout did not make up for the significant
drop in business that many farmers experienced.
President Trump directed roughly $24.5 billion
to American farmers through the MFP since 2018,
with about $23 billion distributed as of early
January 2021. USDA confirmed in a statement to
Yahoo Finance that there would be no more
payments during the Trump administration.
https://tinyurl.com/29wynw35
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